My piece used tissue paper (Kleenex), q-tips, wooden coffee stir sticks, and a piece of bounty paper to create a bouquet. I manipulated the tissue paper into petals and poured some wax on them to stiffen, like an actual flower might look. The q-tips were arranged in a way to look like buds or budding flowers, all connected to the stem that was the stirring stick. To finalize the entire bouquet, I used a piece of bounty to cradle them I used objects typically used for mundane everyday tasks or habits to create something more beautiful. These objects would have been used to clean or perfect something, then ultimately become garbage. The objects I chose never become something, they are merely made to be used in the creation or destruction of something else. Instead, I used them to make the art instead of clean it up. I covered them in acrylic paint, making a gradient across all the flowers, ranging from yellow to green to blue. Then, within the flowers themselves, the color that makes them up becomes less saturated as your eyes more to their center, ending in the light gray used to desaturate them. When I eventually photographed them, I made sure to have the box of tissues used to be in the background, as a reminder that not everything has to be come garbage, sometimes it can be just as beautiful as who or what uses it.
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